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Soy sauce overdose sends man into coma
A young man who drank a quart of soy sauce went into a coma and nearly died from an excess of salt in his body, according to a recent case report. The 19-year-old, who drank the soy sauce after being...
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What’s in a label? Is chicken injected with salt and water ‘all-natural’
Food is 21st century snake oil. And shopping for food can be so confusing. Natural, organic, local, antioxidants, welfare-friendly, whole wheat made predominantly with white flour, hormone-free,...
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Poland pulls food suspected of having road salt
What’s not to like about the Polskie Okorki? And what about those cabbage rolls? But with lorry salt? Polish health authorities have ordered the withdrawal from the market of more than 230,000...
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Low salt suspect; 7 dead, 110 sick from E. coli O157 in pickled cabbage in Japan
Five people, including a 4-year-old girl, have been confirmed dead of food poisoning from pickled Chinese cabbage produced by a Sapporo food company. Another two deaths are believed to be related to E....
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Dehydration and salt toxicity? Cows dying in Saskatchewan
Ann Hui of The Globe and Mail reports that for decades, cattle farmers have sent their livestock to graze on the sprawling Shamrock pasture, about 80 kilometres south of Chaplin in southwest...
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